Washington: President Joe Biden's congressional allies and Donald Trump's rivals for the GOP nomination in 2024 are eager to join the fight to have President Biden impeached as his own legal troubles grow.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is Trump's main rival, stated this week that the House Republicans "are absolutely within their rights" to consider looking into Biden's impeachment. Republican candidates Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador, said they would be "justified to do it." And Trump-aligned House GOP leaders are hinting at what's to come.

Rep. Elize Stefanik of New York, the fourth-ranking House GOP leader and a close ally of Donald Trump, who is occasionally mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick, declared that "House Republicans will leave no stone unturned."

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The idea of impeaching Biden over his son's business dealings made its way from the fringes of the GOP's right flank to the centre of the Republican Party this past week.

At a press conference on Tuesday at the Capitol, Speaker Kevin McCarthy elaborated on his plans after announcing on Fox News that the House may launch an investigation into Biden's potential for impeachment.

inside of closed doors McCarthy acknowledged there is still much to learn about Joe Biden and whether he had any knowledge or involvement in his son's business deals that would constitute an impeachable offence on Wednesday, but the Republican speaker also noted that it is still early in the impeachment process.

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, a seasoned lawmaker and committee chairman, said of the speaker, "The speaker went through what we know and what we don't know."
Cole explained the message to the House GOP by saying, "There's a lot we don't know — we don't know if any money went directly to President Biden or not. "About that they conduct the investigations,"

McCarthy reportedly also told them that he will ask them to "be with me on this" if there is a Biden impeachment investigation, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

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A Trump ally who supports impeachment, Greene, claimed that no one spoke up to object during the closed-door meeting.

The Republicans are elevating a once-rare congressional check on executive power — the formal impeachment charges over high crimes and misdemeanours — into yet another tool being used in party politics by giving Biden notice that the House is considering an inquiry.

Trump has pushed for this political escalation following his own two impeachments. The possibility of a Biden impeachment investigation also arises as Trump is being investigated by Special Counsel Jack Smith for attempting to rig the election prior to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, which could result in a federal indictment.

Trump is the only president in US history to have been impeached twice: once in 2019 over his call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urging him to gather information about the Bidens or risk losing US military assistance, and once in 2021 following the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021 by Trump supporters attempting to overturn Biden's election.

As the current front-runner for the Republican party's nomination to face Biden in 2024, Trump has long been enraged by the House Democrats' attempts to impeach him. Stefanik and Greene's idea to have the Trump impeachments thrown out has been supported by McCarthy. Trump wants Biden to be subject to the same impeachment charges, though.

The current president is "corrupt," Trump wrote in capital letters this week in a post on the internet, "and they impeach me over a 'perfect' phone call, but they don't impeach Biden."

Trump voiced similar grievances last week at a Fox News town hall in Iowa, asking: "Why aren't they impeaching Biden? Why isn't he being impeached?

In particular, when the younger Biden served on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, House Republicans in various committees are looking into the Bidens and speculating that the president may have been aware of or involved in his son Hunter's work.

Republicans in Congress cite testimony from two IRS informants who said last week that the Justice Department dragged its feet in looking into Bidens, a charge the department denies. While other documents show a top company official disputing any payments were made, the Republicans also made public information from a confidential informant that the FBI claims is unverified that claims Burisma payments to the Bidens were bribes.

Hunter Biden had agreed to admit guilt to tax evasion misdemeanour charges stemming from a federal investigation, but the agreement fell through on Wednesday when a judge questioned it.

"Enough has been seen. Chris Christie, a potential opponent of Trump in the 2024 election, stated on social media that "we need a special counsel who has jurisdiction over any and all Biden family investigations."

Regarding any House GOP impeachment investigation against Biden, the White House has declined to respond to specific queries.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated earlier this week that "they can do whatever it is that they wish to do, but we're going to stay focused," citing the "real priorities that the American families care about."

Biden has stated time and time again that he does not discuss his international business dealings with his son.

The president and the first lady "love their son" and "support him as he continues to rebuild his life," the press secretary said in a statement as Hunter Biden appeared in court on Wednesday.

Even though not all Republicans support the House's plans to consider an impeachment investigation, those who do risk political retaliation from Trump.

Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate Republicans, said on Wednesday that he recognises that after Trump was impeached twice while Democrats controlled the chamber, House Republicans may feel pressured to open an impeachment investigation.

But the Republican from Kentucky cautioned his partymates against going down this road further.

"Impeachment ought to be rare rather than common," said McConnell, who has long faced Trump's wrath and hasn't spoken to him since the month before the Capitol attack. "I believe that having multiple impeachments is bad for the nation."

This week, Trump singled out other Republican senators who had voiced opposition to starting the impeachment process, such as John Cornyn of Texas and Mitt Romney of Utah.

Biden's impeachment attempt has been branded as political extremism by House Democrats, who have indicated they will oppose it.

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"I'm very well aware of how important it is to follow the facts and the evidence before you reach any conclusions — and the Republicans are doing the reverse," Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, who served as the chief prosecutor in the House's initial impeachment of Trump in 2019, said.

He continued, "What they are talking about now is pure political retribution that is not based on facts and evidence," and that is "abusing the impeachment power of the Congress."